he Origin of Species is regarded and revered by Darwinians as a "holy" book. However, as previously seen,
The Origin of Species is a huge inconsistent knot of observations, doubts and uncertainties resulting from Darwin's negative spiritual condition. The book is not really a scientific work but is based simply on inference; even Charles Darwin himself had serious reservations about its scientific character. In a letter to his friend, L. Blomefield, he wrote:
So much has been published since the appearance of
The Origin of Species that I very much doubt whether I retain power of mind and strength to reduce the mass into a digested whole...
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Concerning the contents of the book, one of Darwin's closest friends, A. Sedgwick, replied:
I have read your book with more pain than pleasure. Parts of it I admired greatly, parts I laughed at till my sides were almost sore; other parts I read with absolute sorrow because I think them utterly false and grievously mischievous. Many of your wide conclusions are based upon assumptions which can neither be proved nor disproved... You write of "natural selection" as if it were done curiously by the selecting agent.
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Despite the fact that the book was based on many errors in logic, irrational suppositions and improvable assertions, today it remains generally unchallenged. Because The Origin of Speciesprovides the basic foundation for materialist and atheist philosophy, it is regarded as a savior by the ideologies, misguided beliefs and false religions throughout the world that are based on a materialist understanding of life. Although most people today have not even read the book, many educational institutions regard it as the basic foundation of modern thought. Jack Barzun describes the importance of The Origin of Species in these words:
Clearly, both believers and unbelievers in Natural Selection agreed that Darwinism had succeeded as an orthodoxy, as a rallying point for innumerable, scientific, philosophical, and social movements. Darwin had been the oracle and
The Origin of Species the "fixed point with which evolution moved the world."
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While Darwin and his book continue to receive adulation, Henry M. Morris, in his book The Long War Against God, shows how far removed The Origin of Species is from science:
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In fact, one can search the whole book in vain for any real scientific evidences of evolution... No proof is given anywhere – no examples are cited of new species known to have been produced by natural selection, no transitional forms are shown, no evolutionary mechanisms are documented. Actually, the whole book is most notable for its complete lack of documentation. It is all speculation, special pleading, ad hoc assumptions. None of the
Origin's evidences or arguments have stood up under modern critical analysis, even by other evolutionists. One can only marvel that such a book could have had so profound an influence on the subsequent history of human life and thought. There is bound to be something more here than meets the eye!
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As Henry Morris had guessed, there are many different reasons behind the influence that The Origin of Specieshas had on human history. In the whole history of science, no scientific work, whether correct or not, has been adopted with such passion and fanaticism. The ground-breaking discoveries in the scientific world by Newton and Einstein were not followed with this kind of zeal. It is not a scientific conception that is being dealt with here but a religion that is propagated by the power of suggestion. Darwin is the founder of this religion, and he produced the "holy" book of the evolutionists.üüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüüü
left:In his book The Long War Against God, Henry Morris criticizes the evolutionists' misguided battle with religion.(right) Albert Einstein. (middle) Isaac Newton
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